Simpsons' Family and Present Continuous

UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DO PARÁ
CAMPUS UNIVERSITÁRIO DE BRAGANÇA
FACULDADE DE LETRAS BRAGANÇA / SOURE
DISCIPLINA: ESTÁGIO ENSINO FUNDAMENTAL E MÉDIO
PROFESSORA: CILÉIA MENEZES
TURMA DE LETRAS 2006


PLANO DE AULA DA REGÊNCIA DE ENSINO MÉDIO


ALUNA:
Rosália Souza de Oliveira
matrícula: 06138001304


BRAGANÇA – PARÁ
FEVEREIRO/ 2010




LESSON PLAN
THEME: Family’s Vacation
VOCABULARY: Family (The Simpsons as a model)
GRAMMAR FOCUS: Present Continuous
SERIES: 1st (High School)
NUMBER OF STUDENTS: 35
AVERAGE AGE: Young adults
SETTING: Classroom
KEY TO SYMBOLS: T: Teacher, S: Student, Ss: Students

OBJECTIVE: These activities intend to improve Ss reading and writing skills in real situations of communication, and that students do their activities according to the functions of language through realistic written tasks and communicative reading activities.

1st Step: PRE ACTIVITIES (20’)
 TASK 1: MEMORY GAME - pre-reading
This reading activity intends to introduce the subject putting into practice some vocabulary about members of family using the model of Simpsons’ family.

 TASK 2: ANSWERING ABOUT YOU - pre-writing
T presents the present continuous structure through a little interview that will be the base to the text for the Ss. Each S must answer the questions with their own information.


2nd Step: READING AND WRITING ACTIVITIES (50’)
 TASK 3: READING A POSTCARD
T shows to Ss a little text of a postcard that talks about a trip made for someone. T and Ss read together. This activity intends to serve as a model to Ss recognize the main characteristics of this kind of text. T must emphasize the structure of a Postcard.

 TASK 4: MAKING A POSTCARD
Each S must bring to this class some magazines and choose a photo or a picture of some place and make with it a postcard as the model. After that, each one must choose a classmate to be the addressee. Then, Ss must use the information that they wrote in the interview to make their texts on their postcards. And finally, T simulates a play in which there are: a mailbox and someone (a S) is a mailman. Ss glue a stamp (given for T) in their postcards, they take to mailbox and after that, addressees receive their correspondence.

 TASK 5: READING THEIR RECEIVED POSTCARD
Some voluntary Ss should read the received postcard to other classmates.


3rd Step: POST ACTIVITY (20’) – post-reading and writing
 TASK 6: Wrong and Right Sentences
T gives to Ss some sentences about the studied vocabulary and present continuous structure. Ss must separate them in two columns: Right Sentences and Wrong Sentences. After that, they must rewrite the wrong sentences correcting the mistakes.

POSSIBLE PROBLEMS / SOLUTIONS
Problem: Ss don’t have (or don’t bring) magazines, cardboards, scissors and glue.

Solution: T can bring some magazines or pictures and other necessary materials to offer to Ss that forgot them.



ANEXOS:
METODOLOGY (TASKS)
TASK 1: Memory Game
Match each picture with the correct word, to memorize the vocabulary.
(Cards with Simpsons' family)
WORDS: GRANDPARENTS - GRANDMOTHER - GRANDFATHER - FAMILY - CHILDREN - PARENTS - MOTHER - DAUGTHER - DAUGTHER - FATHER - SON














TASK2: ANSWERING ABOUT YOU
Imagine that you are in a beautiful place, on vacation with someone of the your family. Then, somebody call you and do some questions about you. Answer them.
T: Where are you now?
S:
T: What are you doing in this place?
S:
T: Who are you traveling with?
S:
T: What are your relative and you thinking about this travel?
S:
T: When are you coming back home?
S:

TASK 3: READING A POSTCARD
 Teacher shows (as a model) to students a little text of a postcard that talks about a trip made for someone.
 Teacher emphasizes the structure of a postcard.
 Teacher and students read the model text together.
MODEL OF A POSTCARD:

(picture with a postcard - soom)



TASK 4: MAKING A POSTCARD
 Choose a photo or a picture of a place;
 Build a postcard according to a model;
 Choose a classmate to be the addressee;
 Use the information that you wrote in the Task 2 to make a little message on their postcards;
 Don’t forget to put your signature and the date;
 Write the address of the chosen classmate that is going to receive your postcard;
 Glue a stamp (given for T) in their postcards;
 Put the finished work in a mailbox (made by teacher);
 Someone (a S) is a mailman;
 After that, the mailman delivers the correspondence to each one of the students.

TASK 5: READING THEIR RECEIVED POSTCARD
 Read the received postcard to other classmates and show the chosen place for your friend to spend his/her holiday.

TASK 6: Wrong and Right Sentences (accountability)
Read and put each sentence to right or wrong columns. After that, rewrite the wrong sentences correcting the wrong information:
a) Homer Simpson is the father.
b) Maggy is the son.
c) Barth and Liza Simpson are the parents.
d) Liza is the younger of the children.
e) Maggy is looking a small object.
f) Barth Simpson is wearing a super hero costume.
g) Homer Simpson is jumping with a rope.
h) Grandma Simpson is shaking her hands.


RIGHT SENTENCES


WRONG SENTENCES


CORRECTING THE MISTAKES